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Review: Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip

Shaun White Snowboarding has just dropped in a shelf-filling seven flavors (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, PS2 and PC.) With home video game consoles the Wii is in many ways the runt of the pack, lacking the raw horsepower of the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 (both powered by the award-winning Assassin’s Creed engine). Usually with large multiplatform games like this, the Wii version ends up being a crippled and...

Review: Far Cry 2

Far Cry was an interesting game years ago. It was a first person shooter with a difference. It really shook things up in the genre with its tight AI and amazingly far draw distances in a seemingly open world. It also has a significant problem where the game fell apart in the second half with an unfortunate plot and gameplay twist which was seen to many as being three steps back. Its first official sequel is here...

Review: Sony Ericsson W350

The Sony Ericsson W350 appeared on the scene this year in Canada and at initial glance, sparks some interest. It seems small and comes at a super-budget price ($20 after carrier subsidies from Rogers Wireless). It bills itself as a very small flip-phone built for music first and just happens to also be a phone. Reality doesn’t quite match this marketing push but regardless, the phone has it’s strong points which...

Corpus 2.0

Marcia Nolte has produced a series of portraits through which she tries to extrapolate what future human evolution or adaptations might make us look like in the light of our current fashions and technologies. This is what it might be like if we continue to change to suit our stuff rather than designing our stuff to suit us. [Corpus 2.0] [Marcia...

Review: diNovo Mini

Many people (myself included) enjoy having a lovely home theatre experience. Many you have an expensive HDTV, perhaps with an expensive wall mount. Often this is accompanied by expensive audio hardware, game consoles, movie players, et cetera. One of the best additions you can make to your home theatre is an HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) for all your music, movies, photographs, and PVR needs. These all in...
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